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I thought we did the things we wanted to do tonight. The first quarter we played a lot of our starters and scored once with the varsity guys.

I thought that McDyess and Evans played extremely well. (McDyess) has been extremely effective. I said in the beginning of the year, we have six starters -- and I consider him one of the starters. He's playing like that right now.

I think we had a good young nucleus of players there. If you look at the team that beat the Rams, 10 of the guys on defense were the same guys who started last year, and nine on offense were starters last year.

I think we're going to be all right. It's hard to tell. We have five returning starters on offense and nine on defense. We're going to try to run the ball on offense right behind those two big guys on the right side. The kids have done a great job learning the new offense. We're putting more emphasis on offense this year. We need to score more points.

I think we made a decision last fall when we had our review and planning meetings that we felt comfortable with the talent level of these starters we had.

I think we're too focused on the stars. When you focus on the stars, role players get off. Guys that usually don't have big nights are getting 20, 25 points. Once they get their points, the starters come in and kick our butts.

I think anytime you have one of your key starters out it's going to be tough for you. In the first half we didn't handle the pressure (11 turnovers) well and they absolutely smashed us on the boards.

I think adding Brett is a huge plus. He gives us four starters capable of going 180 to 210 innings. He's won a lot of games. We have a staff that will accentuate his strengths. I think he has more upside than he's shown.

It has been a surprising year. We only have two seniors who are starters. I like the way our team has come together. We got two of our starters hurt in football and but they are back now and it's helped our depth.

It is awesome. They thought we were losing all our starters (from last year), and we come back and we just show them that we all can do it. It doesn't matter who it is.

I think there's still a lot of uncertainty, to be honest, as to who the starters are going to be, and who the guys are who'll be the key backups.

I see guys like Cedric Benson, Carnell Williams, all those guys who have a chance to be starters on their teams. I'm just looking for my chance. I don't want to waste three or four years of my prime behind somebody, period. I don't care who it is. I feel like I should start somewhere in this league.

I saw you on TV today saying Kerry Collins has no chance of being a starting QB option no matter where he lands this year. I wonder why you say that when Collins is a much better QB than the current starters in Arizona, Baltimore, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco.

Our pitching. I told them that we're not going to do anything unless we pitched well. Our starters have done a nice job and our bullpen has been much better.

Our pitching has been solid the past two weekends against Central Michigan and Northern Iowa and a strong outing from Luke would really keep the ball rolling. It seems that some of our early season problems we had on the mound, both with our starters and in the bullpen, have been corrected and our staff is very different from when Iowa saw us last.

Our pitching has been coming around. The starters have been giving us plus innings and the bullpen has been holding it. The confidence level has risen big time around here - you can feel it.

Our pitchers have pitched well from our starters to our bullpen. We have a tight pitch-count program here and every one of the pitchers has pitched well. I am proud of them.

Our second team in practice has really been working hard. They have battled the starters like it is a game and that has helped us get on this streak.

Our starters were dead. It was just sheer will there in the end. What helped us tonight is our maturity. We're a senior-dominated team.

Our starters log a lot of minutes. At that time, we made a couple subs and we were fresh coming off the bench. The main thing we did was brought a lot of energy and played defense. A lot of times, that's all you need.

Our starters have the ability to work out of the bullpen.

Our starters go deep into games so often that you almost take it for granted. Cliff gave us another strong one tonight after Scotty (Elarton) had one (Monday).

Our starters didn't play a lot of minutes, and it was good to see us score as many points as we did with those guys not playing. For our team right now, playing this midweek game before getting back into the (Southeastern) conference at Tennessee (Saturday) was good for us.

Our starters broke a sweat and didn't get too stale or hurt and I was happy to see the young guys play. It was good to see those guys in that type of situation.

Our starters are young, but they're very solid. They've been giving us some great games.

Our starters aren't going to get a free pass not to be on special teams. Even though we have more depth and some people who can do things, our best people are going to play on our special teams.

Our focus for Saturday is to be better than we are today. It is a step by step process, irrespective of our opponent or location of the game. What I really like about this team right now is that both our starters and bench are becoming more consistent in their strong play. If we continue making those gains and learning how to take control on game day we will be very happy with the end results.

Our focus early in this game was unacceptable for a game this big. Not all across the board, but a couple of our starters just weren't ready tonight.

Our bench has played better, ... Our starters can play with anybody. But when our bench is going, we're a very good team.

Pleasant Valley had a played a game before us and they weren't playing starters in that game. We had watched them and maybe got a little too confident before the game.

Part of it is to give the starters a rest. The other part is to get the others more quarters and get them into the flow of the game.

Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.

Our offensive line is going to carry us through the season. We've got four returning starters on the line.

Our motivation was to just keep pressing and force turnovers. Our starters picked it up in the second half and considering we played without one of starters, it forced us to rely more on our backcourt.

starters having the kind of years that have won it before.

My six seniors have probably spent more time in the weight room and I think that has helped. The three senior starters have very good leadership. Getting back to the sectional finals is not something we have focused on. We are just taking one game at a time. The fact we are on a winning streak does not add any pressure.

Let me say that our pitchers now have a disadvantage because our pitchers usually have games where they pitch 125 pitches. And here they were limited to 65, 80 or 95. So our starters are used to playing seven or more innings.

Lindsay has been playing awesome. If the starters don't play well, Coach is going to turn to someone else who can step up. Lindsay has proven she's someone he can count on when we need help.

I think our starters are named, pretty much. I think our depth chart is just about how you'd see it.

I think our schedule worked out well for our team. We had two new starters who were freshmen and we played a couple of challenging games early. It worked for our team. I will defend our schedule.

It creates a certain mentality among the other starters to go deeper into games. It makes your bullpen so much better. Everybody knows their roles. It helps save the bullpen.

I thought in several areas we got better today from the standpoint of players that don't play a lot of minutes got a lot of minutes and different combinations with some starters getting to rest and there not being a drop off. All of that is good stuff.

We need six starters for the season and four for conference play.

We need all five starters on the floor as much as possible.

We'll also look for Brooke Davis in the back but she will probably be more of a defensive center midfielder. Brittany Jones and Jenny Clark, who have been consistent starters in the back since they have been at Stetson, also return in the back.

That was the difference in the game. They gave the starters a cushion at the start of the fourth quarter. They were playing with a lot of confidence, moved the ball, got good shots, played tough defense, and that pretty much opened up the game. So the starters got back in and put it away.

I was really happy for Adrian, especially after the game he had at South Carolina (no points, two turnovers in two minutes. It allowed our starters to get a little bit of a breather.

I was proud of my (bench) for their effort. They have worked hard in practice in making our starters become prepared for each game.

I was pretty disappointed with our defensive effort right at the start. Our starters didn't play any defense at the beginning.

I was pleased the the focus of our starters today.

I was one of the later starters and the snow definitely slowed from the start to the finish. But the track didn't get slushy and deep. I just started the race too conservatively.

I wasn't nervous last week, but this week I am. We're playing a better team. They had the best talent I saw, by far, last year. We're going to be a little short-handed. One or two starters will be missing for personal reasons. But the guys taking their place might be just as good.

I would imagine that, with four out of the five starters back, nothing much will change. They're aggressive, they're well-coached and it's going to be a challenge.

Most of them were role players. When this team is firing on all cylinders, I don't know if you can identify who the five starters are. They play so unselfishly. They all play together.

Why we were so successful this year was the balance of the five starters and people who also contributed off the bench. I doubt it will be any one person coming in and trying to average 25 points a game again. It's going to have to be the success of a group of people -- that's what basketball is all about.

We have our best depth in the midfield. Three of our four starters from last season return, giving us a group of experienced veterans.

We haven't replaced Pedro. We don't need to. So we'll go with the four starters we have and add the extra guy to the bullpen. We'll add the fifth starter when we need to.

Well, defensively we're returning all of our starters so if I don't have confidence in our defense then we're in trouble. I expect more of the same.

We were lucky to survive with two starters out. Everyone stepped up.

We were able to bring a lot of people off the bench. We were able to stay fresh. We have a lot of guys pushing our starters for playing time.

When I took over the job four years ago we were just in one of those down cycles. Then last year, we had four starters who were juniors go down with injuries.

We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) who were not defensive specialists. They were kids that we had to borrow to put in there to makeshift and do some things. We had a lot of people playing the whole way. We probably should have started it like that.

We hope it's coach Walters. We'll have all the starters back if he comes back. He's a good coach and a good teacher.

We don't even like to say who the starters are at safety. We've played a lot of kids, and not just in mop-up situations. That's kept us fresh on defense.

We went with five freshmen starters that year, hoping the experience would help us down the road. Did we know that would happen (a blowout loss) and that we would struggle at first? Of course we did, but we thought it would pay off in the long run.

We're a lot speedier this year, offensively. We lost a lot of multi-year starters to graduation, but our players are working hard and I think some of them will step up and do well.

We really stepped it up and the kids played great team ball. All five starters made big contributions." ()

We have some experience, but losing seven starters is significant. We have some talent, but we have to gather ourselves as a team.

We had a lot of seniors last year and this season, we lost eight starters to graduation. I think that this team is very young, and we as a team and as individuals have a lot of room for improvement. They know that, and are looking forward to getting better each day.

We had five starters out (last) week running over a 100-degree temperature.

We had two of our starters down for most of the game. I thought they defended Matt (Weeks) well. It was a pretty physical, fast tempo type of game. Keith (Jones) in foul trouble hurt us, obviously. Michael (Warren) in foul trouble hurt us still.

We have a great group of kids. Our five seniors have done a great job these four years. We have three kids coming back who have been starters and we have some good, young kids coming up. So the future is bright and we're looking forward to the season already.

We have a good bullpen when our starters can go six or seven innings. I feel we have the best bullpen in the league. We took a chance letting (reliever) Joey Cole go, but right now, I feel it was a good decision.

We wanted to make it a little more interesting. We won't use a lot of the starters out there for long. We'll let them get a few snaps in and pull them out. We want to make sure everybody gets a chance to play and we don't have any serious injuries. That's why we split it up like we did.

We wanted to go with our starters as long as possible. It didn't quite work that way, but Brad came in and pitched real well.

We've got some tough games left, but the Hughes game is definitely a game we're concerned about. They (Hughes) return all five starters from a team that made the semifinals last year, so they're obviously a very talented team.

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,

We've got our starters set, and we've been bringing up some guys to give them a taste of varsity basketball.

We've lost three starters ourselves, ... We haven't been totally injury free. I'm sure we'll be tested just like everyone.

We've looked surprisingly good, ... With only four starters back, we're basically a young team.

With the exception of Tyson Chandler, we came out flat. The other four starters weren't at that level so the Kings really took it to us. We got it close and then they just turned it on and we didn't have an answer for them.

We're really pleased with the defense. We have 10 new starters on defense. They grew up in a hurry and hung in there.

We have a lot of confidence in all of our guys. If you have good players you need to use them, because not every team has this kind of depth. If guys play well they stay in the game. It gives us a chance to keep our starters fresh. It was a real key.

We played OK today. The lack of communication slowed us down, and they were missing three starters today.

We'll probably have our starters throw four or five innings. I hope to play everyone at some point this weekend.

We have the nucleus of a good team. We lost two seniors, but we've got five of our starters back. We feel we have something to build around. We think we have the nucleus of a strong team, we just have to round into shape.

We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.

We came up in the first inning and our first three hitters all struck out. Then they put up a three spot up and we just came together. We hit around and I think the difference was our dugout. Everyone was in the game from our starters to our pinch hitters.

We have a few injuries in our back line. A couple of our projected starters didn't even play, but the players that went in did a great job. I moved junior midfielder Scott Carbon back to the defense and he played very well. I thought he was the player of the game.

We had too many of our starters sitting on the bench sitting in foul trouble. We were pleased we came out with a win, and it was an overall good effort by the kids. They played hard.

We have a very young team and the spring is a great time to help prepare our team for the fall. With 10 starters back, we want to build on our late season success.

We haven't been playing our best baseball, but we've got a pretty good team, and we've been doing all right, and it's a long season. Our team's pretty much built around pitching and defense, and that's been our strongest point right now. We've got five good starters and a good bullpen.

We have not been playing well of late. Our big thing though is it's not how we start, it's how we finish. We have not put a full set of starters on the field yet.

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We are hoping to improve on our fundamentals and understanding of the game, as well as try to determine starters and guys who will earn playing time. We also want to give an overall evaluation of our toughness as well as establish that we have all our guys in the best positions for our team.

We'll eventually have to use a relief pitcher more often. But right now, our starters are doing what they need.

Unfortunately, there are only five starters but she accepts her role and she's been so effective coming off the bench. We have the luxury of having a sixth player who could be a starter for someone else.

We are returning five starters including our pitcher. We are optimistic about our season. We really feel we have a great shot to go a long way. Our seniors have worked hard and are planning for a great season.

We are returning a lot of starters from last year, and we have big expectations. We still have a tough schedule ahead, and we are going to have to pick it up even more.

We played a really good first half. But then we fumbled in the end zone and we had to play our starters a little longer than we wanted.